He’s always talked this way. It tells us more about him than anything.
, 62 percent of American Jews hold a favorable view of President Joe Biden, compared to just 21 percent who hold a favorable view of Trump; while 73 percent of American Jews feel Biden stands up for their religious beliefs, just 35 percent feel the same way about Trump.
But, then, this is not the first time Trump has said something to this effect. Indeed, it is not even the second or third. It is but the latest in a long line of similar comments Trump has made. In 2019, Trump, “Any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat—I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.” In 2021, hethat Jews in the United States “don’t like Israel or don’t care about Israel” . In 2022, hethat “U.S.
This is significant both for what it says about how Jews are seen at one end of the American political spectrum today and for what it says about Trump. All of it is, in one sense, an inversion of the “dual loyalty” trope in which Jews are secretly suspected of not being loyal to the country in which they live, so beholden are we to our religion and to other Jews.
It perhaps goes without saying, but one person cannot tell another what their identity means for them. That Trump believes that to be a serious Jew means to vote for him does not make it so. Further, there has never been consensus on what it means to be a good Jew. That is particularly obvious now, at a time when Jews areover the definition of antisemitism and whether to be an anti-Zionist Jew is to exist within or outside of the communal fold.
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